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According to Dr. Barry Devlin of 9sight Consulting, the truth behind all the talk about big data and the possibilities it can offer is not hard to see, provided that organizations are willing to return to the principles of good data management processes.

Researched and compiled independently by Chartis, the RiskTech100® evaluates and ranks the world’s most influential risk technology providers based on a range of criteria. IBM retains its top position in the 2014 RiskTech® 100 rankings with top scores for functionality, market presence and innovation. The Chartis report is acknowledged globally as one of the most comprehensive and prestigious studies of risk technology vendors. The report also tracks key trends and developments in the risk technology marketplace. Read the report to learn how IBM can support your risk and compliance efforts to drive business performance and better outcomes.

IT organizations are focusing on supporting growth, boosting revenue, advancing innovation, and delivering new customer experiences. Their mission is no longer about managing and troubleshooting technology. It’s about transforming business processes and driving new business outcomes.

What are the key elements of a collaboration framework that can help IT decision makers (ITDMs) and
business decision makers (BDMs) come to a mutual understanding of how, where and why to use videoenabled
collaboration solutions, in particular, F2F video? To answer this question, Techaisle conducted a
survey of 1,269 ITDMs and BDMs with SMBs and midmarket businesses, across the US, Latin America,
Europe, and Asia Pacific. The survey was commissioned by Cisco.
The survey findings provide guidance to SMBs and midmarket decision makers on how the nature of the
collaboration discussion is changing, drive acceptance and use of F2F video throughout their organization
to maximize business payback, and align objectives with the outcomes that shape the activities of highgrowth
innovative firms who are the most successful users of advanced collaboration technology.

CTOs, CIOs, and application architects need access to datacenter facilities capable of handling the
broad range of content serving, Big Data/analytics, and archiving functions associated with the
systems of engagement and insight that they depend upon to better service customers and enhance
business outcomes. They need to enhance their existing datacenters, they need to accelerate the
building of new datacenters in new geographies, and they need to take greater advantage of
advanced, sophisticated datacenters designed, built, and operated by service providers. IDC terms
this business and datacenter transformation the shift to the 3rd Platform.

Technology’s role in business and society has
shifted away from largely driving efficiencies to
innovating and creating engaging experiences
that attract and retain customers. Innovations and
business outcomes are fueled by a perfect storm
of technology trends in cloud, analytics, machine
learning, IoT and the emerging API Economy. The
convergence of these technologies has created
new opportunities for enterprises to improve
business performance by acquiring customers
faster while creating brand loyalty. The role of
technology expands the interaction with customers
beyond the core of the enterprise – away from
100% dependencies on systems of records –
and towards real-time, contextual interactions.
Businesses are a digital business or they are
evolving to become one. This requires enterprises
to re-think how they build software architectures.

It’s the difference between raw data, and information. The Miercom Business Decision Series combines the results of our hands-on testing, with insight on how particular features can positively impact the business bottom line. This report details some of the clear business advantages that the Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series delivers.

Statistics are the underpinning of how Optimizely’s customers use data to make decisions. We use experiments to understand how changes we make affect the performance of our online experiences. To do this, we need a framework for evaluating how likely those changes are to have an impact, positive or negative, on a business over time.
To run great experiments, investing in an understanding of statistics is one of the most important skills you can develop. Statistics provide inference on your results and help to determine whether you have a winning variation. Using statistical values to decide leads to stable, replicable results you can bet your business on. Lack of understanding can lead to errors and
unreliable outcomes from your experiments.

Today data is the new currency of business. But many organizations have yet to make the most of data insights that drive better outcomes. This e-book describes how businesses can manage information with greater efficiency, speed and continuity for improved ROI through.

Organizations are largely relying on TCO and ROI models in determining whether or not to invest in a unified communications (UC) solution. But what other factors are they considering? You’ll better understand the value that firms are deriving from UC, the status of its adoption, and the barriers to full implementation.

Big data analytics offer organizations an unprecedented opportunity to derive new business insights and drive smarter decisions. The outcome of any big data analytics project, however, is only as good as the quality of the data being used. Although organizations may have their structured data under fairly good control, this is often not the case with the unstructured content that accounts for the vast majority of enterprise information. Good information governance is essential to the success of big data analytics projects. Good information governance also pays big dividends by reducing the costs and risks associated with the management of unstructured information. This paper explores the link between good information governance and the outcomes of big data analytics projects and takes a look at IBM's StoredIQ solution.

Creating more person-centric, coordinated and value-based care means all service providers must share risks and data, conducting business with partners that cross traditional boundaries, while data is transforming this industry at an unprecedented pace.
Watch this webcast to learn more of how organizations are optimizing their business processes to lower costs, analyzing data to improve quality, care, and population health, while learning to engage in new ways to drive better outcomes.

Cloud adoption is growing, but relatively few organizations
have advanced cloud strategies.
Achieving greater levels of cloud adoption allows organizations
to materially improve strategic allocation of IT budgets, lower IT costs, reduce time to provision IT services, increase revenue, and improve ability to meet SLAs. Private cloud adoption is greater than public cloud.
Additionally, private cloud/OpenStack adopters are more likely to expect better business outcomes IDC sees web-scale public cloud making way for enterprise-class “provider-based cloud”.

Cisco's Business Cloud Advisor provides a source of comparative cloud adoption levels supported by an IDC research model that integrates benchmarks calculated from the responses of over 3,400 organizations that took part in the IDC CloudView survey and analysis supported by IDC's business outcomes research.
This analysis of your responses places You with 31% of the overall organizations in the benchmarked group at cloud adoption level 2 – Opportunistic.

Learn why the next generation of Business Process Management has to realign its priorities to focus on being agile, responsive and aimed at achieving business outcomes that deliver, drive, and create innovative ways to help organizations stay competitive.

Most enterprise datacenters are so cluttered with individually constructed servers, including database servers, that staff time is largely taken up with just the maintenance of these systems. As a result, IT service to business users suffers, and the agility of the enterprise suffers. Integrated systems represent an antidote to this problem. By dramatically reducing the amount of setup and maintenance time for the applications and databases they support, integrated systems enable the technical staff to spend more of their time supporting users and enabling the enterprise to thrive.

Businesses contain countless systems, sensors, meters, and other IT devices generating volumes of data daily.But, are your devices and systems simply sharing data or are they having a conversation that enables better business outcomes?

In this inforgraphic, we are going to show you the possibilities with modernised, optimized data infrastructure. In doing so, we aim to bring you ideas about how you can bring your own data-driven business vision to life, focusing on the outcomes that matter most to you.
In essence, we will be discussing five main industries and the possibilities for modernized data infrastructure. We will be displaying how Banking and Financial Services, Telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare and retail can use data, analytics and automation to optimize their business, therefore bringing about a competitive edge which previous appeared unimaginable. Using data correctly, most importantly building proper data infrastructures, can be the driving force behind obtaining a competitive edge.
Data is your story. And it’s our story, too.

Today's economic climate has heightened the goal of every IT department to provide high-quality IT service to the business, at the lowest possible cost, while improving business outcomes. Looking outside of the infrastructure itself, there are two key challenges related to data storage: provisioning capacity for applications and reducing risk through a sound data protection strategy. This white paper discusses the challenges of creating the right storage infrastructure, provides an overview of data storage options, and examines a storage solution that combines blade servers and network-attached storage.

The research in this report reveals that progressive organizations look at recognition differently. Most importantly, they have a strategy for recognition that ensures alignment with business goals, organizational culture and other talent management processes. These organizations design their programs to consistently reinforce key behaviors and outcomes necessary to drive business success.

This white paper includes interviews with three diverse companies using User Experience Monitoring (UEM). It underscores UEM’s diverse appeal, its values to IT, and Dell’s versatility in UEM. The paper shows how Dell is combining critical insights into business outcomes and user behaviors with performance and application design.

Not long ago, if you asked an IT executive about transformation, there was a good chance you’d get a technology-centric response. You’d hear about consolidation and virtualization, power and cooling, security and availability.
Today, the responses are different. This edition of Unleashing IT is all about transformation. Not technology change, but business change through the use of technology.

To understand the impact of marketing management on business outcomes, IBM surveyed more than 500 professionals across fifteen industries. We linked responses to public financial information to see correlation between marketing sophistication and financial performance.